Setting Up Raspberry Pi Web Kiosk

This post shows steps to setup a web kiosk using Raspberry Pi. The goal is to load a web page using a browser in full-screen kiosk mode directly after boot up.

I tested it with Raspberry Pi 3 running Raspbian Stretch (November 2017 version) with Raspberry Pi official 7″ display. I used Chromium as browser. Also, Internet connection is required since the kiosk access a web site on the Internet.

At this point, full-screen weather (specified at line 12 in step 2-2) will be shown after boot up. Check it by rebooting the board.Below steps are to remove unnecessary stuff for kiosk, such as Rainbow image, Raspberry logo, Desktop GUI, login messages, etc